Coding sprint

Improve nilearn

The sprint will be a community effort to work on nilearn: adding new features, improving examples, documentations.

Sprint infrastructure:

Technical discussions should take place on GitHub as usual to keep track of development and have open discussions.
To create more dynamic time together (albeit remotely), we have created a Nilearn-Dev-Days Discord room. You can find a quick introduction to the Discord platform at the end of this email.
Important announcements will be made on both Discord “general” channel and the dedicated Nilearn issue.

Daily organization:

To say hello and organize work, we will have two introductory meetings on Wednesday at 9:30a CET and 9:30a EDT. To share progress we will have another common session on Thursday 5:00p CET, 11a EDT. You can find all relevant events in the sprint calendar.
We welcome all contributors to schedule discussions for specific topics of interest. These sessions should be announced with at least a few hours notice on both the GitHub issue and Discord room.
We will consider the sprint hours to run roughly from 9:00a CET to 6:00p EDT. We do not expect anyone to attend all (or most !) of that time ! These are just the times when at least one current Nilearn core developer will be online to help with general questions and point towards available resources.

An introduction to Discord:

Discord is a chat platform that allows for both voice and text communication.
In the left panel, you can modify settings at the top (notifications, privacy…) and see all available channels below (text and voice)
In the right panel you can see who is connected and contact them directly.
The general channels will be for welcoming, general announcements, and asking general questions. A break channel is dedicated to sharing breaks together. You can create other channels to accommodate specific needs (for example, setting up your development environment).
Notifications can be a bit overwhelming on Discord, don’t hesitate to filter them out while working (muting channels with right-click or setting your account on Do Not Disturb).

We strongly encourage all interested contributors to register for the sprint ! To do so, please fill the form below.